DSQ recently completed a job in Boulia, far Western Queensland. Tony stopped to take a few happy snaps for us along the way. Shown is one of the most remote pubs in Queensland at Middleton, Middleton lookout in the channel country, the Tree of Knowledge in Barcaldine, and the Lawgi Hall. Getting to explore these...Read More

This month’s Safety Award goes to our field surveyor, Geoff Batts. Geoff (or Battsy to his co-workers) was recognised for consistently being a great example in completing our Take 5’s which are an important part of our safety management system. Battsy has been on the project since day one and it shows through his solid...Read More

December’s Safety Award for our QGC Project went to one of our Field Surveyors, Adam Tomlinson, who specialises in Machine Guidance. Adam is one of many valued team members out at our DSQ Chinchilla operation and is commended for consistently demonstrating the Assist and Assure values when working out on site and around the office....Read More

DSQ recently completed Easement Surveys in remote QLD and NSW making it all the way to the boundary intersection point of QLD, NSW and SA at Cameron’s Corner. After 100’s of kms of rough roads, dust storms and a couple of 45 degree days, Tyler and Alan managed to locate and photograph the Permanent Survey...Read More

Congratulations to Ralph Daley for completing his Certificate 4 in Surveying. Ralph is based at our Western Downs office and works primarily on the Shell QGC project.  It’s great to see our team improving their skills and progressing their careers in Spatial Sciences.Read More

Another year has passed so, with alternating rosters, our Chinchilla crew celebrated both their Christmas parties with some good old fashioned barefoot bowls. The Warana crew finished the year off with a bang (and a few cocktails) at Mykies By The Bay, Kawana. It was great to see everyone let their hair down after all...Read More

Dan Wood has been a valued employee at DSQ for the last 2 years whilst studying a Bachelor of Spatial Sciences (Honours) (Surveying). In completing the first 2 years of this degree Dan is eligible for registration as a Surveying Associate with the Surveyors Board of Queensland while continuing his studies to become a Registered...Read More

This month, we decided to treat the whole team as Safety Winners after reaching an excellent KPI score during September and ticking over 850 days Incident and Injury free on the project. This just goes to show how well the crews have embraced Shell’s Assist and Assure HSSE culture. To celebrate, Chas fired up the...Read More

DSQ’s HSSE had the opportunity to visit the Shell-QGC warehouse in Chinchilla and it certainly was impressive! This was made possible from a collaborative aspect that is off and running throughout the organisation, a universal quest that is being undertaken, applying an Assist and Assure culture by Shell-QGC.   Assist & Assure is a term...Read More

Electrical Power lines… what’s the big deal? We don’t go near them, or do we? DSQ was approached by Shell QGC to commence marking in on our drawings the height of the SWER (Single Wire Earth Return) lines so that everyone in the construction phase would be aware. From this, it sparked a conversation about...Read More